Ted Kennedy propped up in the year 2040 gives a speech condemning the 2000 Election!!
Posted on 06/13/2005 5:57:26 AM PDT by johnny7
Senate Democrats are in the early stages of several filibusters against executive nominees that they hope will be more effective than those they have abandoned in recent weeks against President Bush's judicial appointments. The new filibusters are not based publicly on ideologies -- as with several of the nominees to the federal bench -- but on demands for additional information from the administration.
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I hope RATS never realize that being disingenuous is destroying what's left of their reputation with voters.
D*mn Demonrats!
Amen to that! :-) Perhaps next they'll get Howard Dean involved with the confirmation process. LOL
Where is Frist in all of this? I didn't see his name mentioned in the article.
You mean McCain... right?
Lots of ways to stall nominees both in committee and on the floor.... The thing is it has been used on both sides of the aisle as delaying tactics. The whole thing is much like children in a 'he said, no he didn't' confrontation.
Yeah, I read this article this morning. Ted Kennedy is angry because he wasnt supplied with the 'UNPUBLISHED' opinions of one of the nominees. The article notes the difficulty in locating the unpublished opinions because well... They are after all... UNPUBLISHED!!!
Some Republican talking heads should go on several of the talk shows and make the point that the Senate established the Select Committee on Intelligence specifically for this circumstance - to limit the exposure of classified material to a SELECT group of senators to keep the material secret. IOW, non-select senators are not allowed to see the material for security reasons.
Dims will scream that the administration doesn't trust them, and the answer is, "We trust the Ranking Member of the Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Rockefeller. Don't you?"
Like they care. They believe the shyt the MSM puts out is swallowed hook line and sinker by the voters. Unfortunately, so do many Republicans who rarely travel outside of the Beltway.
You cannot shame a Democrat, so force is the only option. If the Senate GOP cannot push President Bush's executive nominees through confirmation, then recess appointments are the only answer. Just do it...
I hope they do. They are looking at a 60 seat Repub majority in 2006 if they keep this crap up.
Go the Frist's page and contact him....I do this almost every day when they are in session. It does help, and he does respond. Senator Kennedy is one of the sticking points here with another delay tactic....and FRIST KNOWS IT. Ask for the Constitutional Option....lay it out there and use it. It makes the Dims crazy...
That's when you have no other options. They got the best option already available... END FILIBUSTERS FOR JUCICIAL NOMINEES!
It's an open secret here in MA that Kennedy is so addled with drink that he cannot do even simple research and reading. EVERYTHING is done by his staff, including writing all his speeches in extra large, triple-spaced text. Kennedy is quite literally brain-damaged, but the Left will prop him up until he has been dead for 2 or 3 years.
I hope they do delay and fillibuster Terrence Boyle. I live in Beaufort county NC and he is a local HERO! The navy is attempting to put an outlying landing field in our county because the fine folks up in Virginia decided it makes just too much noise in the neighborhoods that they built around the field that already existed there.
The Navy assumed that they would have no trouble shoving it down the poor and poorly represented Eastern NC site, which also is a migratory bird area. The studies showed that the numbers of birds would be a hazard to the planes, but he Navy and Warner decided to ignore the studies and give us their OLF anyway.
Enter Terrance Boyle. He has put a solid stop to it and is demanding that the Navy show conflicting studies that would allow them to override the wildlife concerns and the local objections.
My wife, as liberal as they come, would at least pay attention to any dimocrat shenanigans against her favorite judge.
Ted Kennedy propped up in the year 2040 gives a speech condemning the 2000 Election!!
The Republicans... literally will have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Rush said it best, the democrats are trying to delay delay delay so by 2008 all of Bush's actions can be reversed as a bad Democrat ("gay") Party dream.
The senate does not realize and does not care that their little country club is despised by rank and file of both parties. You would think they are EUrocrats.
This is a lawyer tactic. If a developer needs to be delayed, demand environmental studies. If a new law will hurt your, demand ecconomic impact studies.
How many times did we joke about Clinton sending blue ribbon study pannels to fight a war?
Perhaps we should be mailing the Republican senators pairs of rubber balls (ala the Tea Bag Rebellions). this to remind them to get a pair.
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